Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a script to generate a (long/short) options overview

2013-10-31 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 12:09:10AM +0100, Stefan Beller wrote: On 11/01/2013 12:04 AM, Stefan Beller wrote: Recently a discussion started on the mailing list, which short option shall be best for a long option. (-f being always --force and therefore should not be reassigned another meaning

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a script to generate a (long/short) options overview

2013-10-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net writes: RFC 5321 forbids lines exceeding 1000 octets (including CRLF). RFC 5322 forbids lines exceeding 998 characters (excluding CRLF). If you want to get around that, you need to base64-encode the content, which is generally discouraged when